{"id":3818,"date":"2017-11-10T14:57:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T17:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/?p=3818"},"modified":"2017-11-10T19:44:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T22:44:42","slug":"a-few-small-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/?p=3818","title":{"rendered":"A few small items"},"content":{"rendered":"

This<\/strong> is inventory time at work, so I am trying to get the usual tasks completed while at the same time, having to figure out the inventory issues.<\/p>\n

Since this is the US Government, they have to update\/upgrade everything on an annual basis.\u00a0 So, just as I got last year’s inventory process figure out, they change it to a new improved method, which requires learning the process all over again.\u00a0 Very frustrating….\u00a0 They do these improvements every year.<\/p>\n

The Marine Ball will be a week from Saturday.\u00a0 Nov. 18th.\u00a0 It will be a bit strange without Terese, since we only went to these because she wanted to.\u00a0 I will watch the people dance and jiggle to the music, then I will slip away.\u00a0 The following day I will hop on a plane and head home for Thanksgiving and see my incredible 900 year-old mother.<\/p>\n

I have befriended the little lady in the mail room.\u00a0 When I get my mail several times a week, I visit with her a few minutes.\u00a0 She confides in me when she is upset and I turn on my halo and convince her it is not as bad as she thinks.<\/p>\n

The other day, she told me the Brazilians at the Consulate, specifically the Local Guard Force, has nicknamed me McGyver<\/em>.\u00a0 (spelling may be incorrect) \u00a0He is a TV character that has some sort of knack to get things done.<\/p>\n

She told me the guards say I can open a door with a paperclip.\u00a0 I don’t know where they get such nonsense, but I decided to have some fun with it.\u00a0 Now, every time I work on something in their presence, be it an x-ray machine, door controls, video monitor, camera, etc., I will ask one of them for a paperclip.\u00a0 Then when I get through, I will hand it back.\u00a0 Sometimes, I will bend it out of shape first.<\/p>\n

Sunday, I will go on a Consulate sponsored shopping trip.\u00a0 It was planned last week, but cancelled because of the weather.\u00a0 I will take some pictures and show you what the place looks like.<\/p>\n

A couple of months ago, I hired a young woman to come in and clean my apartment once a week.\u00a0 Her name is Camila.\u00a0 She is probably in her mid-twenties and I am told her husband recently lost his job, so I give her a few extra Reals. (pronounced \u201chey-eyes\u201d)<\/p>\n

For some reason, she tends not to understand what I tell her.\u00a0 Perhaps she just doesn\u2019t want to.\u00a0 I originally told her not to do any laundry.\u00a0 Sounds simple, but she does it anyway, so I decided, Okay, let her do it.\u00a0 But then I noticed she was putting the detergent into the bleach port, so as a result, my clothes tend to smell more like the detergent than what I want.\u00a0 I specifically told her to use the extra rinse cycle to eliminate the smell, but she doesn\u2019t.\u00a0 I even put little green stickers on the washer settings so she will know which ones to use, which she doesn\u2019t use. So last Wednesday when she came, I took her into the utility room and specifically pointed out the issues.\u00a0 Maybe it will work okay.<\/p>\n

I have two bath mats in my bathroom I have placed for when I step out of the shower, but every time, she places them in a different place, almost as if she is trying to tell me I had them wrong.\u00a0 So, every week, I have to place them back where I want them.<\/p>\n

I have several of the Amazon Echos in my apartment, and I think the one in the kitchen scared her when it started talking, because she always unplugs it.<\/p>\n

But she does the things I<\/em> don\u2019t want to do, like cleaning the bathrooms, kitchen, floors and rugs and taking out the trash. (I never was a very good trash emptier \u2013 you can ask my mother) Camila changes the sheets and towels and washes them.\u00a0 A bonus to this, it makes me do as much of my laundry as I can before she shows up, because if she washes any shirts, she will button every<\/em> button after hanging them up.<\/p>\n

I shouldn\u2019t really complain, because I only pay her about $50 a week which includes her transportation.\u00a0 I noticed she uses my coffee maker, so I always leave out a little bag of fresh coffee for her to use.\u00a0 That is something Terese would have done (and much more).<\/p>\n

I have been reading several of Bill O\u2019Reilly\u2019s books lately.\u00a0 I read Killing Lincoln <\/em>a few years ago, and finished reading Killing<\/em> England<\/em> last week.\u00a0 Currently, I am reading Killing the Rising Sun.\u00a0 <\/em>These are extremely well written and the research by Martin Dugard is incredible.\u00a0 Even the little footnotes are good.\u00a0 These are books that are easy to read because they hold your attention.\u00a0 I have several more waiting to be read.<\/p>\n

Speaking of books, did I lend any of you my Les Miserable <\/em>book?\u00a0 It has been read by perhaps a dozen people.\u00a0 Its pages are bent and dog-eared and it is dirty all over, because it was read by several men who ran the milling machines at the plant years ago.\u00a0 The cover has been taped on, because the book got into the hands of a child of a friend who was reading it.\u00a0 Needless to say, it is my favorite book, so I keep it in the china hutch.\u00a0 But it is not there, and I don\u2019t remember if I loaned it out.<\/p>\n

\u2026 maybe Camila took it home to read, even though she doesn’t know English.<\/p>\n

D.<\/p>\n

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